BIOGRAPHY
Jeremy Geidt
A.R.T. Senior Actor, founding member of the Yale Repertory Theatre and the A.R.T. Yale: more than 40 productions (including The Seagull). A.R.T.: 100 productions including The Seagull (three turns as Sorin), Julius Caesar, Three Sisters, The Onion Cellar, Major Barbara (Undershaft), Heartbreak House (Shotover), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Quince four times, Snug once), Henry IV (Falstaff), Twelfth Night (Toby Belch), The Caretaker (Davies), The Homecoming (Max), Loot (Truscott), Man and Superman (Mendoza/Devil), Waiting for Godot (Vladimir), The Threepenny Opera (Peacham/Petey), Ivanov (Lebedev), Three Sisters (Chebutkin), Buried Child (Dodge), The Cherry Orchard (Gaev) and The King Stag (Pantelone). Teaches at Harvard College, Harvard’s Summer and Extension Schools and at the A.R.T/MXAT Institute. Trained at the Old Vic Theatre School and subsequently taught there. Acted at the Old Vic, Young Vic, The Royal Court, in the West End, in films and television and has been hosting his own show “The Caravan” for the BBC for five years. Came to the U.S. with the satirical revue The Establishment and acted on and off Broadway, at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival and at the Lincoln Center Festival. Lectured on Shakespeare in India and the Netherlands Theatre School. Received the Elliot Norton Award for Outstanding Boston Actor and the Jason Robards Award for Dedication to the Theatre.
PAST PERFORMANCES
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- A Midsummer Night's Dream (2004)
- A Touch of the Poet
- Amerika or The Disappearance
- As You Like It
- Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Black Snow
- Boys from Syracuse
- Buried Child
- Cabaret
- End of the World with Symposium to Follow
- Ghosts
- Hamlet
- Happy End
- Has "Washington" Legs?
- Heartbreak House
- Henry IV, Parts 1 & 2
- Henry V
- In the Jungle of Cities
- Ivanov
- Jacques and his Master
- Julius Caesar
- King Lear
- Life is a Dream
- Loot
- Love's Labour's Lost
- Lulu
- Major Barbara
- Man and Superman
- Marat/Sade
- Mastergate
- Measure for Measure
- Misalliance
- Once in a Lifetime
- Pericles
- Peter Pan and Wendy
- Platonov
- Quartet
- Right You Are (If You Think You Are)
- Romeo and Juliet
- Sganarelle- An evening of Molière farces
- Six Characters in Search of an Author
- Six Characters in Search of an Author (1996 revival)
- The Balcony
- The Birthday Party
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- The Caretaker
- The Changeling
- The Cherry Orchard
- the CIVIL warS: a tree is best measured when it is down
- The Cripple of Inishmaan
- The Day Room
- The Doctor's Dilemma
- The Homecoming
- The Imaginary Invalid
- The Inspector General
- The Journey of the Fifth Horse
- The King Stag (2000)
- The King Stag and A Gozzi Surprise
- The Lost Boys
- The Merchant of Venice
- The Miser (1989)
- The Onion Cellar
- The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides
- The Provok’d Wife
- The School for Scandal
- The Seagull (1992)
- The Seagull (2009)
- The Serpent Woman
- The Servant of Two Masters
- The Taming of the Shrew
- The Tempest
- The Threepenny Opera
- The Wild Duck
- The Writing Game
- Three Farces & A Funeral
- Three Sisters (1982)
- Three Sisters (2005)
- 'Tis a Pity She's a Whore
- Twelfth Night
- Waiting for Godot (1995)